Artic Temps at 44,000 year high

The title says it all, people. Researchers are sounding a new alarm on climate change. It night be a good idea to consider one of those one way
trips to Mars to start a new life. All signs are pointing to some real calamities on a global scale.

Breaking records over 120,000 years old, eh? Well.. Maybe there was a round of volcanic eruption somewhere elsewhere in the world that raised temps
..or something else that dropped them after. The comparisons are always interesting when they are so far beyond any reach of recorded history or
concept of what was happening because full conclusions are drawn from partial data.

Apparently, humankind has had access to thermometers and have kept records for the past 44,000 years! Finally! We can boot out all of those old
ideas that humans were simple hunter gatherers around river valleys...

"All of Baffin Island is melting, and we expect all of the ice caps to eventually disappear, even if there is no additional warming."

So they're effectively saying there's nothing that can be done (even in their fantasy world). Well hell, if nothing can be done I guess there's no
point in doing anything differently. *shrug* Nice to see the GW crowd starting to wise up and issue "carry about with your normal business"
messages for a change.

You logic is amazing. Using it that means that because you have to breath to be alive and you are certain to die at some point in the future, the need
to care for air quality is a futile endeavor as the resulting outcome is certainly the same, your death.

Add to that that oxygen is by definition an oxidant and breading increases the chance that free radicals damage you DNA and we all should just dismiss
pollution in general, in fact because we all will die there is no point to life so any life saving technology is just a waste of resources.

Compound that with the fact that 90% of all species that ever existed are now extinct, and even if humanity made an impact in this world, in face of
that number it was minimal, we should stop concerning ourselves with war, decease and misery or having any ecological concerns since we are most
certainly all destined to die off as a species...

www.sciencemag.org...
The ice mass in East Antarctica increased by 14 gigatons. The ice mass in West Antarctica and the Antarctic Penninsula decreased by a total of 85
gigatons. A net loss of 71 gigatons.

Estimates of recent changes in Antarctic land ice (see above) range from losing 100 gigatons/year to over 300 gigatons/year. Because 360
gigatons/year represents an annual sea level rise of 1 mm/year, recent estimates indicate a contribution of between 0.27 mm/year and 0.83 mm/year
coming from Antarctica. There is of course uncertainty in the estimations methods but multiple different types of measurement techniques (explained
here) all show the same thing, Antarctica is losing land ice as a whole, and these losses are accelerating quickly.

It is all well and good to look at winter sea ice in the Arctic. What many fail to register is that the depth, ie, thickness of sea is minimal. That
is why it is so easily melted in the summer months. It is not a good sign.

Looking at average temperatures on the earth does not tell you what the Arctic is doing, nor as Phage has stated that the antarctic ice is decreasing
over all.

You logic is amazing. Using it that means that because you have to breath to be alive and you are certain to die at some point in the future, the need
to care for air quality is a futile endeavor as the resulting outcome is certainly the same, your death.

My logic is simply taking into account the actual facts.

You are injecting your own ideas into my logic and are wrong...except for the part about dying.

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